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'''Spiky hairHair''' is the process of using product to make the hair stand on end like spikes sticking out of the head. It's often associated with the punk rock subculture and in fiction, it's used to show that a character is wild and cool as well as being badass. While spiky hair is prominent in real life, fictional characters are almost always shown with perfectly spiked hair despite the fact that it would get flattened while they're in bed. While it is a typically male hairstyle, it has become somewhat fashionable for women to have a spiky hairstyle.

Compare [[Anime Hair]] and [[Shonen Hair]].

* Matt from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. While many other characters sport wild and crazy hair, he's the only one who's actually stated to use gel.

* Played with by Team Unicorn in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'', whose leader's hair has one long spike.

* [[The Beano]]'s [[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis the Menace]] and [[The Dandy (Comic Bookcomics)|The Dandy]]'s Smasher.

* Rory O'Shea from ''[[Rory O 'Shea Was Here (Film)|Inside I'm Dancing]]'' and his bleached blond spikes. Not allowing him to gel his hair is one of the many ways the women in the care home try to restrict him.

* The unnamed woman on the team from ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' has some truly amazing blonde spikes. They show how much of a badass she is though in an action movie [[Vasquez Always Dies|the tough tomboyish girl doesn't last too long]].

* Freddie spikes his hair when he becomes a fan of punk music in ''[[School of Rock]]''. Billy is also shown with spiked hair when they arrive at Battle of the Bands. Laurence also goes for this look during the performance.

* Ryan Phillippe donned some impressive spikes for the film ''Homegrown''.

* The bully Rory Buck from ''[[Jack Frost (1998 (Filmfilm)|Jack Frost 1998]]''.

* James Dean, ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''.

* Gary Oldman in ''Sid and Nancy''.

* Jonathan Lipnicki as little Ray Boyd in ''[[Jerry Maguire]]''.

* Nymphadora Tonks in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series favours her hair short, spiky and bright pink. Since she can change her appearance at will she obviously has no trouble spiking it up in the morning.

* Lisbeth Solander from ''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]'' is a goth girl with short spiky hair.

* Mike from ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' is said to have this hairstyle. The movies give him normal flat hair though.

** Alice Cullen is also said to have short spiky hair. In the movies her hair is a bit longer and a little less spiky.

* Irish hero Slaine Mac Roth is known for his spiked back hair.

* Thalia Grace from ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' is described as a punk girl and has spiky black hair.

== Live -Action TV ==

* Spike from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' is shown with spiky hair in a flashback to the 70s. And no, that's not where his name comes from.

* Both Chandler and Ross liked to have this hairstyle in ''[[Friends]]''. Ironically Rachel told Ross he used too much gel when his hair was actually flat.

* Vince from ''What I Like About You''.

* In [[S Club 7]], Jon Lee adopted this style for the ''LA 7'' season.

* Abby Maitland in ''[[Primeval]]'' gave herself a short spiky style for season 3. She grew out her hair in season 4.

* Leo's [[Evil Twin]] from the season 6 finale of ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]''.

* June Tuesday on the short-lived That 80s Show

* In "[[Power Rangers Wild Force|Forever RedRED (film)]]", Tommy Oliver has switched to this hairstyle, which is jarring to older viewers because previously he'd been a [[Badass Long Hair]] whose hair had lengthened with each passing season. It's still short and spiky when he returns as a regular cast member in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]''.

* As mentioned above, spiky hair is found in the punk rock subculture. It's often dyed various colours as well. Some schools aren't as strict about spiky hair as they are about certain other hairstyles, as long as the spikes aren't too severe.

* Liberty spikes is a special style where the hair is grown long and spiked out, looking similar to the headdress on the Statue of Liberty where the name comes from.

* Mark Hoppus, of ''[[Blink -182]]'' fame.

* Pretty much every member of ''[[Good Charlotte]]''.

* Derek Whibley aka Bizzy D from ''Sum 41''.

* Sid Vicious as mentioned above.

* Zack Ryder and his slogan "take care, spike your hair".

* Hwoarang gets this hairstyle in ''[[Tekken]] 4'' when he joins the army. It grows out between games.

** Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima.

* Hwang Sung Kyung and his expy Hong Yun-Seong from ''[[Soul Calibur]]'', despite the game [[Anachronism Stew|being set in the 1500s]].

* Phoenix Wright from the [[Ace Attorney]] series. The rest of the cast frequently poke fun at him for it.

* Crono from ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]''

* The appropriately-named Spike from ''[[Ape Escape (Video Game)|Ape Escape]]''.

* ''[[Cracked (Website).com|Cracked]]'' Photoplasty advertises a hair gel that makes the above video game examples possible in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005152300/http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#17 Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games].

== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==

* Barry's hair from ''[[Newheimburg (Webcomic)|Newheimburg]]'' is gelled like this.

** Also, Sideshow Bob, Bart's archnemesis, who actually resembles a palm tree.

* Phil has this hairstyle in the first season of ''[[All Grown Up!]]''. He has curtained hair in other seasons. Tommy also has really short spikes.

* Phineas of [[Phineas and Ferb]] has this hairstyle.

* A DJ-lookalike seen in [[Pixar Shorts|''Tokyo Mater'']] has large spoilers on his roof that resemble spiked hair.

* Harold Lloyd.

* Victoria Beckham as well as her husband David both have had spiky hairstyles though not at the same time.

* Guy Fieri of the [[Food Network]] and ''[[Diners, Drive -Ins and Dives]]'' has this as his most recognizable feature, and it's notable that even though he usually wears sunglasses he doesn't actually put them on the top of his head, presumably so as not to crush his hair, and instead puts them on the back of his neck.

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